Oh no, I have an (admittedly resistable) urge to buy Prince's "Emancipation" set!

I enjoy the production on some of these and if they come up on shuffle I wouldn't skip but agree it's just fatiguing to listen to for 3 hours straight.

Hasn't got the highs of gold experience (I hate u pr Billy Jack bitch) but it's got so many well honed songs (maybe too well honed), it's a shame it sunk, and if it wasn't 3 CDs long, it might not have done.

A triple in the 80s, that's one thing, a triple when each disc can be 70 mins long, that just untenable

Also every ballad on disc 2 is worth listening to, but there are just too many of them. Saying that though, the opening line of one kiss at a time, 'come and get your cum on' is just a bit weird. And sex in the summer just sounds so forced.

Actually listening to it now, my main thought is yes, a song can be good, but that doesn't mean it needs to be on an album. All the outtakes from the late 80s even, they're great, but he made the right call in not including them on the albums released.

disc two >>>>>

Has anyone ever posited an entirely post-Lovesexy greatest hits tracklist, and what it might entail?

disc two >>>>>

― ivy.

second side of Disc Two.

will no 1 stan for "Emale"

― Neanderthal, Sunday, April 24, 2016 4:47 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

*raises hand*

I just risked visiting www.emale.com on my work computer to discover that "The owner of emale.com is offering it for sale for an asking price of 485000 EUR!"

this is a weird album. every time i try to make it a single or double album, it doesnt work really. i think its cos while a good 75% of it is very good, theres no real amazing highlights on there, or no 'big' standouts apart from the covers (one of us is still one of the best things he did in the 90s, and well, ever, the most perfect cover he ever picked). its also really fussily engineered and produced, theres not a note out of place. i guess that makes it both state of the art in 96, but also just a bit... sterile? as an album/playlist, i like to make it start with slave, and end with emancipation, but i find both tracks a bit of a bore really, even though it makes sense to have them there to create an album kind of experience (and this an album that needs to be an album as it doesnt have many big peaks). i love sleep around but its too long, and needed a proper house remix. it is his one true 90s rnb album, def more conservative in many ways for him, but i think he lost something in the process, just cos trying to be a more pure (relatively speaking) rnb artist wasnt really prince i think, even though he did try to cleave more to that as he got older. but this was the last time he was trying to sound current maybe, until the art official age album (which i like more, and was maybe the best late period album he did).